Patent 7131913 was granted and assigned to Mizuno Corporation on November, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A groove is provided a surface on a cavity portion side of a sole portion in a head portion of an iron golf club, and a thickness of a ball hitting portion in a face portion is made larger than a thickness of a top edge side portion of the face portion and at least as large as a thickness of a sole side portion of the face portion. In a golf club set according to the present invention, the groove has the greatest depth in a long iron golf club, while the groove has the smallest depth in a short iron golf club or no groove is provided in the short iron golf club.